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The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical sub... |
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Previously published as: On the origin of species by means of natural selection
Topics: Evolution, Natural selection
Topics: Evolution, Natural selection
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Topics: Political science, Political ethics
Topics: Political science, Political ethics
New York Public Library
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Aesop; Vernon Jones, V. S. (Vernon Stanley); Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, ill
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xxix, 223p. 21 cm
Topic: Fables
Topic: Fables
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679; Pogson Smith, W. G. (William George)
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eye 21,722
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xxxi, 557 p. :
Topics: Political science, State, The
Topics: Political science, State, The
New York Public Library
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Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863; Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859; Bell, R. Anning, ill
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favorite 92
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A collection of forty-nine tales by the Grimm brothers
Topics: Fairy tales, Folklore -- Germany
Topics: Fairy tales, Folklore -- Germany
University of Toronto - John M. Kelly Library
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Hippocrates; Heraclitus, of Ephesus; Jones, W. H. S. (William Henry Samuel), 1876-1963; Potter, Paul, 1944-; Withington, E. T. (Edward Theodore); Smith, Wesley D., 1930-
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Hoeniger, F. David
Topics: Hippocrates, Medicine, Medicine, Greek and Roman
Topics: Hippocrates, Medicine, Medicine, Greek and Roman
454 p
v. 1. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Journal of John Woolman; Fruits of Solitude/William Penn--v. 2. Apology, Phaedo and Crito/Plato; Golden sayings of Epictetus; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius--v. 3. Essays, civil and moral, and The new Atlantis/Francis Bacon; Areopagitica and Tractate on education/John Milton; Religio Medici/Sir Thomas Browne--v. 4. Complete poems of John Milton--v. 5. Essays and English traits/R. W. Emerson--v. 6. Poems and songs of Robert Burns--v. 7. Confessions of...
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Topic: Literature
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Topic: Literature
Princeton Theological Seminary
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
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lx, 260 p. 22 cm
Topics: Equality, Natural law, Political science
Topics: Equality, Natural law, Political science
Topic: Literature -- Collections
California Digital Library
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822; Forman, Alfred, 1840-1925; Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917; Todhunter, John, 1839-1916
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Microopaque
Topic: Cenci, Beatrice, 1577-1599
Topic: Cenci, Beatrice, 1577-1599
Topic: Literature -- Collections
[1] leaf of plate, 337 p. :
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Topics: Beagle Expedition (1831-1836), Geology, Natural history, Voyages around the world, South America --...
Topics: Beagle Expedition (1831-1836), Geology, Natural history, Voyages around the world, South America --...
v. 1. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Journal of John Woolman; Fruits of Solitude/William Penn--v. 2. Apology, Phaedo and Crito/Plato; Golden sayings of Epictetus; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius--v. 3. Essays, civil and moral, and The new Atlantis/Francis Bacon; Areopagitica and Tractate on education/John Milton; Religio Medici/Sir Thomas Browne--v. 4. Complete poems of John Milton--v. 5. Essays and English traits/R. W. Emerson--v. 6. Poems and songs of Robert Burns--v. 7. Confessions of...
Topic: Literature
Topic: Literature
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University of Toronto - John M. Kelly Library
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Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533; Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell), 1852-1915
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Topics: Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453, Europe -- History 476-1492
Topics: Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453, Europe -- History 476-1492
Topic: Literature -- Collections
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Topics: Voyages and travels, Sailors
Topics: Voyages and travels, Sailors
The Library of Congress
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816; Webster, Hanson Hart, 1877- [from old catalog] ed
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liii p., 1 l., 18 cm
Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=ewAIAAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=ewAIAAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
v. 1. Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola -- v. 2. Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus -- v. 3. Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus -- v. 4. Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla -- v. 5. Agesilaus and Pompey. Pelopidas and Marcellus -- v. 6. dion and Brutus. Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus -- v. 7. Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar -- v. 8. Sertorios and Eumenes. Phocion and Cato the Younger -- v. 9....
xxiii, 182 p. ; 18 cm. --
v. 1. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Journal of John Woolman; Fruits of Solitude/William Penn--v. 2. Apology, Phaedo and Crito/Plato; Golden sayings of Epictetus; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius--v. 3. Essays, civil and moral, and The new Atlantis/Francis Bacon; Areopagitica and Tractate on education/John Milton; Religio Medici/Sir Thomas Browne--v. 4. Complete poems of John Milton--v. 5. Essays and English traits/R. W. Emerson--v. 6. Poems and songs of Robert Burns--v. 7. Confessions of...
Topic: Literature
Topic: Literature
139 p. 18 cm
Eighty-two fables, with a short history of the Aesopic fable at the beginning
Topic: Fables
Topic: Fables
Topic: Literature -- Collections
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Topic: Knowledge, Theory of
Topic: Knowledge, Theory of
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
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Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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Topic: Literature -- Collections
California Digital Library
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Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875
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Publisher's violet sand-grain cloth over boards, blocked in gold and blind
Topic: Children's stories, Danish
Topic: Children's stories, Danish
Topic: Literature -- Collections
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Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
v. 1. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Journal of John Woolman; Fruits of Solitude/William Penn--v. 2. Apology, Phaedo and Crito/Plato; Golden sayings of Epictetus; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius--v. 3. Essays, civil and moral, and The new Atlantis/Francis Bacon; Areopagitica and Tractate on education/John Milton; Religio Medici/Sir Thomas Browne--v. 4. Complete poems of John Milton--v. 5. Essays and English traits/R. W. Emerson--v. 6. Poems and songs of Robert Burns--v. 7. Confessions of...
Topic: Literature
Topic: Literature
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Eliot, Charles W. (Charles William), 1834-1926
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The Editor's Introduction; Reader's Guide; Index to the First Lines of Poems Songs & Choruses, Hymns & Psalms; General Index; Chronological Index.
Topics: Best books, Poetry -- Indexes, Religious poetry -- Indexes
Topics: Best books, Poetry -- Indexes, Religious poetry -- Indexes
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Topic: Rome
Topic: Rome
vi, 136 p. :
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778; Voltaire, 1694-1778
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1 p. l., 434 p., 1 l. :
Topic: Philosophy -- Collected works
Topic: Philosophy -- Collected works
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
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Topic: Literature -- Collections
[pt. 3] Translation
xviii, 110 p., 1 l. 21 cm
Topics: Epic poetry, English (Old), Monsters, Dragons
Topics: Epic poetry, English (Old), Monsters, Dragons
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
University of Toronto - John M. Kelly Library
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Plutarch; Dryden, John, 1631-1700; Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819-1861; Frye, Northrop
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Bibliography: v. 1, p. xxvi
Topics: Greece -- Biography, Rome -- Biography
Topics: Greece -- Biography, Rome -- Biography
The Harvard Classics
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Herodotus; Tacitus, Cornelius; Nichols, Philip, 16th cent; Pretty, Francis; Biggs, Walter, d. 1585?; Haies, Edward, fl. 1580; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618; Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell), 1852-1915; Gordon, Thomas, d. 1750, tr
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An account of Egypt, by Herodotus, tr. by G.C. Macaulay.--Tacitus on Germany, tr. by T. Gordon.--Sir Francis Drake revived, by P. Nicols.--Sir Francis Drake's famous voyage round the world, by F. Pretty.--Drake's great Armada, by Captain W. Biggs.--Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to Newfoundland, by E. Hayes.--The discovery of Guiana, by Sir W. Raleigh
Topic: Voyages and travels
Topic: Voyages and travels
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
v. 1. Confucian, Hebrew, Christian (part I)--v. 2. Christian (part II) Buddhist, Hindu, Mohammedan
Topic: Sacred books (Selections: Extracts, etc.)
Topic: Sacred books (Selections: Extracts, etc.)
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
202 p. : 16 cm
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University of Toronto - Scarborough
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Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
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Topic: Literature -- Collections
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Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
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Topic: Freedom of the press
Topic: Freedom of the press
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| The Editor's Introduction to the Harvard Classics |
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"My purpose in selecting- The Harvard Classics was to provide the literary materials from which a careful and persistent reader might gain a fair view of the progress of man observing , recording, inventing, and imagining from the earliest historical times to the close of the nineteenth century. Within the limits of fifty volumes, containing about 22,000 pages, I was to provide the means of obtaining such a knowledge of ancient and modern literature as seems essential to the twentieth century idea of a cultivated man. The best acquisition of a cultivated man is a liberal frame of mind or way of thinking; but there must be added to that possession acquaintance with the prodigious store of recorded discoveries, experiences, and reflections which humanity in its intermittent and irregular progress from barbarism to civilization has acquired and laid up. From that store I proposed to make such a selection as any intellectually ambitious American family might use to advantage, even if their early opportunities of education had been scanty." The purpose of The Harvard Classics is, therefore, one very different from that of the many collections in which the editor's aim has been to select the hundred or the fifty best books in the world; it is nothing less than the purpose to present so ample and characteristic a record of the stream of the world's thought that the observant reader's mind shall be enriched, refined, and fertilized by it. |
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1 Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn
2 Plato, Epictecus, Marcus Aurelius 3 Bacon, Milton's Prose, Thomas Browne 4 Milton's Complete Poems in English 5 Emerson. Essays and English Traits 6 Burns. Poems and Songs 7 Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Thomas A Kempis, Imitation of Christ 8 Nine Greek Dramas 9 Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny 10 Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations 11 Darwin. The Origin of Species 12 Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans 13 Virgil's Aeneid 14 Cervantes. Don Quixote, Part I 15 Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress. Walton, Lives of Donne and Herbert. 16 The Thousand and One Nights 17 Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Anderson 18 Modern English Drama: Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, Byron 19 Goethe: Faust, Egmont, etc. Marlowe: Doctor Faustus 20 Dante. The Divine Comedy 21 Manzoni. I Promessi Sposi 22 Homer. The Odyssey 23 Dana. Two Years Before the Mast 24 Burke. On the Sublime; Reflections on the Revolution in France, etc. 25 J. S. Mill and Thomas Carlyle 26 Continental Drama 27 English Essays, Sidney to Macaulay 28 English and American Essays 29 Darwin. Voyage of the Beagle 30 Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, etc. (Scientific Papers) 31 Cellini. Autobiography 32 Montaigne, Sainte-Beuve, Renan, etc. 33 Voyages and Travels 34 Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes 35 Froissart, Malory, Holinshed 36 Machiavelli, More, Luther 37 Locke, Berkeley, Hume 38 Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur 39 Famous Prefaces 40 English Poetry, 1 41 English Poetry, 2 42 English Poetry, 3 43 American Historical Documents 44 Sacred Writings, 1 45 Sacred Writings, 2 46 Elizabethan Drama, 1 47 Elizabethan Drama, 2 48 Pascal. Thoughts and Minor Works 49 Epic and Saga 50 Introduction, Reader's Guide and Indexes 51 Lectures on The Harvard Classics |
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The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.n 1910, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, then President of Harvard University, put together an extraordinary library of "all the books needed for a real education."
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